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This England of ours is not so poor and so weak a thing as to depend upon the reputation of this or that administration; and the world knows pretty well of what stuff she is made....
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “This England of ours is not so poor and so weak a thing as to depend upon the reputation of this or that administration…”
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Morley asserts that England's strength does not rely on the reputation of any single administration.
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